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From: A simple and affordable method for estimating the fluid volume a mosquito sucks using food dyes

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Food dyes colorize mosquito abdomen using ATP-based membrane feeding. a Food dyes used in this study. b A representative example of Ae. aegypti female mosquitoes that sucked 0.1 mM ATP solution containing 4 μg/μl (upper row) or 20 μg/μl (lower row) of each food dye. -, G, B, Y, and R indicate no food dye (control), green, blue, yellow, and red, respectively. c, d Ae. aegypti female mosquitoes engorged with 0.1 mM (c) or 1 mM ATP (d) solution containing the indicated concentration of each food dye. All experiments were performed more than three times. Dunnett’s multiple comparison test; ns, not significant

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